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British Fiction - 19th Century
The great era of the novel.
Emma
Jane Austen
Arguably all Jane Austen’s novels are about the path to self-knowledge her characters must travel along if they are to find happiness, but none more so than Emma.
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
Austen’s deepest, most tenderly explored love story, Persuasion was also her last. Alongside Austen’s sharp-eyed depiction of Anne, Captain Wentworth and the elegant streets of Bath there is an elegiac tone to Persuasion that makes it many readers’ favourite.
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen's novels, combining an eventful plot, sparkling dialogue and the companionship of characters like Mr Collins and Miss Bingley, who delight us even in the exhibition of their absurdity.
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The Best of Saki
Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and the world’s most disgusting breakfast cereal, ‘Filboid Studge’, are just some of the fantastical inventions that populate the stories of Saki.
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An Outcast of the Islands
Joseph Conrad
Peter Willems is a clerk in Macassar who falls into dishonesty almost by accident. Granted a second chance at a remote river trading post, he finds himself ostracised by both Europeans and the indigenous peoples.
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The Secret Sharer and other stories
Joseph Conrad
When the Captain of a ship in the Gulf of Siam hauls a naked swimmer out of the water, he has little idea into what troubled waters he will steer himself and his crew by giving the mysterious stranger sanctuary.
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The Isle of Voices and Other Stories
R. L. Stevenson
Stevenson had a brilliantly incisive, occasionally unsettling imagination, which he allowed full reign in his stories. The ten short stories collected here were all originally printed in magazines, although some have never previously been published in book form.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Orphaned and rejected by her aunt, Jane Eyre survives the privations of Lowood Charity School to become a governess. At Thornfield Hall she meets Mr Rochester, 'more remarkable for character than beauty', yet fascinating in his direct, unconventional conversation.
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Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton crosses the class divide when she spurns loyal Jem Wilson for the attentions of Manchester mill-owner's son Henry Carson. The romance offers Mary the hope of an escape from poverty
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
Chosen by Posy Simmonds
George Eliot's epic novel of a manufacturing town and its inhabitants is widely acknowledged to be her masterpiece.
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The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
Set against the rapid social changes of 1840s provincial England, Eliot’s affecting portrayal of the relationship between two different, but bonded, individuals delivers a beautifully poignant tale.
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The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
Chosen by Bill Bryson.
Erskine Childers’ only novel, The Riddle of the Sands, was a sensation when first published and a major influence on such writers as John Buchan and Ian Fleming.
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Chosen by Simon Armitage
The ultimate story of shipwreck and survival, Defore describes Robinson Crusoe's trials and ingenious solutions in such convincing detail, his character seems real to us
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
Set during the height of the French Revolution – Can the Scarlet Pimpernel keep identity a secret, even from his wife. But can he escape the cold eyes of the French agent, Monsieur Chauvelin?
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The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson was a ruthless refiner of his stories - 'I am always cutting the flesh off their bones' - and his mastery of the form lies not only in his page-turning plots and immediacy of style, but in the vivid pictures he creates in the reader's mind.
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